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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: 386 Family Products
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 16:19:31 EST
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> >> Correction:  if you're going to call them fools, Henry, preface that
> >> with 'rich'.
> >As in "I'll be rich if I can only convince my program to run on this
> >@%&$^%$#!& processor with those @$#@#&^%&! 64KB segments!"?  :-) :-)
> 
> 1) Last I checked, the 386 had segments just a bit larger than 64k.

Let me know when you see 386 machines out in the field in huge numbers,
i.e. suitable for getting rich from.  The 386 is barely out of the vaporware
stage right now.

> 2) High level languages make this problem transparent to the user.

Provided you've got a good compiler -- they don't grow on trees -- and either
none of your data objects is larger than 64KB, or else you don't care if
the code runs at the speed of a drifting continent.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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